What a way to kick off a show.
What a way to kick off a show.
Gif?
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I'd rather not look it up.
I don't need to see a kayfabe toe biting spot again tbh.
'Kassius Ohno has a thing for toes' was a great line from Mauro though.
MOTY 2019 contender and possible winner there.
Was awesome. Ricochet is absolutely class - he’s like every kid’s perfect CAW, even down to the beard. Such a fun style.
The first half of the match felt a bit too choreographed though. Like some of the transitions were almost too fluid to forget that it’s all just an athletic dance. Good match though. No doubt better than anything we’ll get at the big boy show tomorrow.
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Two brilliant matches followed by two meh matches.
Shafir (with the shit Batman cosplay mask) and Duke should be nowhere near TV appearances, they suck.
Doing a royal rumble sweepstake with some pals (@Phonics got to watch UFC with them) before watching it. It's an open draft of 10 (or 7 if the fourth guy gets involved) wrestlers in the mens and womens match. Points based on eliminations, time spent in the match etc. Who should I pick?
Rollins and Becky are my picks for the Rumble winners but I would consider taking Mustapha Ali and Andrade. They could well get them lasting for 45 minutes and I could see one of them being in the final four. I actually have £5 on Ali to last the longest and Andrade to get to the final 4 because betting on a pre-determined event is a good idea.
Drew and Braun will have the most eliminations in the men's.
Nia would be a good pick in the women's, she'll probably get the most eliminations there and they will have her last a while.
...fancy giving me about 20 picks for mens and womens in order so i have some...guidance...
it's for £30, if I win you can have £10 @Sir Andy Mahowry
If not I'll just pick Rollins, Braun then a series of blokes from 15 years ago out of blind hope they'll make a surprise appearance. It's Tajiri's year.
Might change based on the point distribution:
Seth Rollins
Mustafa Ali
Becky Lynch
Andrade Cien Almas
Braun Strowman
Nia Jax
Charlotte Flair
Drew McIntyre
Ember Moon
Samoa Joe
Rey Mysterio
Lars Sullivan*
Trish Stratus*
Alexa Bliss
Apollo Crews
Bobby Lashley
Ruby Riott
Zelina Vega
Velveteen Dream*
Pete Dunne*
The asterisks haven't been announced for the Rumble but I've heard rumours about all of them.
3 cracking matches and 2 meh.
Great Takeover but not near their best.
The roll from Ciampa into the rope DDT was brilliant.
Aleister Black might be worthy of a late pick.
I'd assume that's him done in NXT now. Could last a while and/or get a couple of eliminations or they'll save him for the RAW after Rumble.
- 1 point when participant enters
- 1 point per elimination
- 3 points for double elimination
- 5 points for triple+ elimination
- 1 point if participant lasts 10-19 mins
- 2 points if participant lasts 20-29 mins
- 3 points if participant lasts 30-39 mins
- 4 points if participant lasts 40-49 mins
- 5 points if participant lasts 50-59 mins
- 7 points if participant lasts 60+ mins
- 5 points for third
- 8 points for second
- 10 points for first
- -1 point if eliminated before 5 mins
- Any return/debut in the match(es), down your drink
I'd probably knock Almas down below Strowman.
Ember Moon #1
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Not watched a wrestling show in months; maybe longer, NXT takeover is on.
I'd imagine Brawn Strongman will waltz into the Rumble match and piss off the wrestling purists including Mahow because memes.
I really like the NXT commentator, I just wish he had less pre planned lines.
Barely watched for the last 6 months, but I'm still excited for the Rumble tonight. I'd love a few nostalgia entries, they've been lacking the last few years.
Rumble main card starting at 1 tonight? I'll probably give it a look.
How's the (main roster) product these days?
Midnight.
RAW is pretty awful and Smackdown is alright.
Same as it was when I stopped watching then.
Just had a look at the card & it's not exactly got me excited - Miz & Shane tagging together?
It has been a woeful storyline.
Miz got to the final of THE BEST IN THE WORLD MEGA SAUDI TOURNAMENT, prior to this Shane said whoever lost in the final for SD would be fired (the guys who lost before were fine ofc) and Miz got a kayfabe injury. They were going to declare Ziggler the winner by forfeit but Shane O'Mac came in for the glory.
Miz has then been claiming that he's 2/3rds the best with Shane 1/3 and that if they teamed up they'd be THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Shane wasn't sure but finally relented.
I feel bad for The Bar, they lost RAW titles against Braun and a 10 year old and now they will lose the SD titles against Miz/Shane.
You missed that Miz wants this because his dad admires Shane.
Fridge Raiders vs UE and NA title match seriously delivered.
Riddle / Ohno had a weird ending, have we seen somebody tap out to strikes in WWE before? I feel like I have seen it but no idea where. Match did the job though and Ohno did some good heel stuff.
Baszler vs. Belair was disappointing and I can't quite make up my mind on the NXT title match. It's definitely good but I don't think it's to the standard of most other NXT title matches recently. Not that there's any shame in that.
What happened in the women’s title match? I got to the point where
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I wouldn’t normally care but I was quite invested but then my daughter finally went back to sleep and I didn’t fancy risking watching any more.
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Marina Shafir (sporting a shit Catwoman cosplay mask) and Jessamyn 'The Drunk Anorexic Crane' Duke came running in. They got bitchslapped by Belair but Shayna had time to recover. She put Belair into the choke but she performed a really nice suplex counter showing her strength. Baszler got it back in shortly after and Belair attempted to lift her but then collapsed.
Shafir and Duke are crap and shouldn't be there as it's also making Shayna look weaker.
[spoiler]Belair hit a move and pinned Baszler but the ref was down, she then fought off Baszler's mates, Baszler got her in the submission as the ref came round but Belair stood up and powered out, whiffed a 450-splash at which point Baszler got the submission in again./spoiler]
I thought they made Belair look really good but I just didn't think this match worked as well. Whether that's because Belair's still a bit green or if Baszler's just better against faster opponents rather than Belair's power I dunno.
They had a brawl involving Dream, Ciampa, Gargano, Black, Adam Cole and Ricochet when TV coverage stopped.
This has got people thinking they might do an NXT elimination chamber.
If they brought back the old chamber to differentiate it from WWE's new one I'd be all over that shit.
Just to reiterate because people are sometimes dicks, put any betting odds or "backstage rumours" in spoiler tags in the build up and during the event.
Pre-show is starting now.
Cena is out with Braun replacing him.
That kills one of rumours which was:
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Put it in spoilers just in case they've tweaked it but seems dead.
Rezar and Dawson will be teaming together because reasons.
I thought they'd just write off the AOP with Akam's injury.
Don Cena winning it from number thirty.
You can tell WWE is owned by a multi-billionaire because they're pitching the guy who cares about the long term welfare of the environment as a heel over a guy who thinks the earth is flat.
EDIT: Bryan cutting a promo that definitely wasn't designed to sell more burgers in response
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Truth, mate.
Truth winning it from number thirty.
Just making Chad Gable miniature Bobby Roooooo, huh?
We're getting two guys who've never tagged together beating the reigning champs, right? Seems like the way WWE usually books things.
First match starting now.
Roode and Gable against Pain Revival.
Fucking cameraman clearly falling over there
A future shot at the tag titles isn't much of a prize when they all get one every two weeks anyway. Get the Colons or the Ascension in the match and you've got some stakes.
I hope they're getting all the night's fuckups out of the way in this match because there were enough for an entire show then.
Shawn looks like he's a guy who lives in his van and he's going for a job interview.
Nice to see Nakamura wearing Kane's hand me downs nowadays.
Ref was worse than Lana's accent.
I'm almost certain that Shawn Michaels is answering different questions to the ones we're hearing.